Politics

  In a move to save his presidential ambition, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is set to meet Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje over the crisis rocking the party in Kano State. Tinubu had on Sunday met with Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, whose camp ...

  In less than 14 months to the 2023 general elections, contesting political parties within and outside the ruling APC are already devising their plot to either remain in power or unseat the ruling cabal, former Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode has been tipped as one of the key ...

  A fresh crisis is brewing in the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ambition of former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023.   Tinubu who is yet to formally declare his interest in the presidential race has, however, been ...

  Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are reaching out to the party’s caucuses in the National Assembly in their latest bid to forge a compromise with the leadership of the legislative arm on the controversial direct primary clause in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. ...

  Former Vice President, Mr Atiku Abubakar has commenced town hall meetings towards the realisation of his 2023 political ambition with an audacious attack on President Muhammadu Buhari, declaring the president a collosal failure. In a statement on Thursday evening announcing part of the activities heralding Atiku’s full declaration, the ...

  The Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Thursday afternoon received the newly-elected officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in his Abuja residence. The team was led by the National Secretary of the PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu. Anyanwu, a ...

  The House of Representatives on Thursday invited the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Yakubu Mahmood to address concerns about the cost of running direct primaries. Mahmood is to appear before the House Committees on INEC and Appropriation on the matter. This resolution followed the adoption ...

  The headquarters of a faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been set ablaze. This happened on Thursday morning. The building located along Maiduguri road, in Kano metropolis, was set ablaze by thugs suspected to be against the Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau’s APC faction.     POLITICS NIGERIA ...

  A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit that sought to disqualify the governorship and deputy governorship candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the last governorship election in Anambra State – Charles Soludo and Onyeka Ibezim. The plaintiffs – Adindu Valentine and Egwudike Chukwuebuka ...

  The Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) has said the President of Ilana Omo Oodua, Prof Banji Akintoye, and his deputy, Shade Olukoya, have unresolved issues within their Yoruba separatist group, which have nothing to do with NINAS. The self-determination group disclosed that the main problem started when ...